Science Online London 2009: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online from Joanna Wombat on Vimeo.
My slides are posted here.
Category: STM publishing
links for 2009-07-03
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Insightful post on scientific literature. “This got me wondering – why do we consider peer reviewed research to be important? I’d actually suggest that peer review is of secondary importance, so I’ll discuss that later (if I remember). So, why do we need a scientific literature?”
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Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors’ blog: Genetic Tests on the Horizon“The latest in genetic testing from the Consumer Genetics Conference.”
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Promising new medical textbook review site put out by HS. “Medical Textbooks Revealed: The Naked Truth, from the people who brought you Flesh and Bones is a website essentially written by medical students for medical students and aims to take the ‘irk’ out of the sometimes irksome task of choosing the right medical textbooks for you…who better to guide you through this maze than your peers and ensure you spend your precious cash in the very best way?”
links for 2009-07-02
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An interesting essay on disruption and some lessons to be learned from newspapers. I don’t entirely agree with the prescription Michael offers though.
links for 2009-06-05
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Academic Productivity » Soft peer review? Social software and distributed scientific evaluation
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“The US economic stimulus package contained substantial funds designated for scientific work and, eventually, we’re going to want to know whether that was money well spent. But providing anything more than the simplest of measures will be a real challenge.” – I am all for increased spending on basic science, but am not sure calling it stimulus money is entirely accurate.
links for 2009-05-06
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Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science.
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An alternative metric. It get’s pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet.
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Sandeep Guatam’s thoughts on the Patil and Siegel article: “However, while they believe that all the tools for online collaboration are already in place, I on the other hand think we need a more formalized one-stop system for scientists, where all their sharing, networking and collaborating needs are met…”
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Inspiring article fantasizing about the potential of more collaborative science – “What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? by Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel* via Chris’ FF